[NBLUG/talk] Cobalt server and parsing access logs

[Mark Street]

AH, webserver access logs, I will give a nod to the freebie 'webalizer' for 
basic web server log file parsing, it will create a page for each month of 
the log file.

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On Friday 21 May 2004 16:12, Troy Arnold wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 04:02:52PM -0700, Todd Cary wrote:
> >
> > I think I figured out what I need to do:
> >
> > The logging appears to put all logs for each month into one "overall"
> > log.  This log is the one the built in parser uses, so I'll rename it
> > and cat the months I want into a new one.
> >
> > My intial strategy was to get the BIG log file and parse it myself.
>
> awstats is an easy to configure web based log analysis tool that shows
> everything most 'clients' wish to see.
> http://awstats.sourceforge.net/
> Once it parses log files once, it doesn't need to parse them
> again, but it instead adds new data to the reports.
>
> I haven't run it on any huge datasets, but it seems to perform well
> enough on logs of a million or so rows.

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